AWNY Linkomat

Street sign shadow on a two-tone wall by limonada on Flickr.

Writing about Moses and his roads in the previous post has gotten the asphalt-juices flowing. There is remarkable amount of information out there about New York City streets and street lighting. You can even take a virtual tour of the path of the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway. Some of the best infrastructure-related resources come from those who document city streets, expressways, parkways, and street lights the same way some meticulously catalog planes or trains.

• NYCRoads.com has been around for years and has comprehensive photo catalogs and histories of the area’s roads, crossings, and exits. Don’t miss the “Unbuilt Roads in NYC” page.

• Another oldie but goodie can be found at Jeff’s Streetlights & Highways Site.

• OldNYC has many virtual tours like the one of LOMEX above.

• The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council compiles many reports, like their new Unified Planning Work Program.

• A look back at the Westway Project from Thirteen’s “New York Voices.”

• A little while back, the City’s Department of Design and Construction and Department of Transportation sponsored a competition to design a new standard NYC streetlight for the twenty-first century. The competition is over, but it’s interesting to see the winner’s design as well as the other finalists at City Lights